pythonpoole's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms Capturing TAB Key

  Ok, I know how to capture Keys, but I can't seem to capture when the TAB key is pressed.  I know its a special case, but I can't get it. Any ideas You can catch the TAB key by creating a new textbox derived from Textbox and override ProcessDialogKey. ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Visual Basic Problems Using DirectX 8.0

  ok, What I really would like is to download visual basic 6.0, but I cant find anywhere to do that.. My problem with visual Basic express edition, is I cant seem to get my reference to Directx 8 to work, I have reinstalled directx 8 and VB but it still wont work for me, any ideas> I am programming in BASIC and am very new at it... if anybody could help me I'd be very thankfull, you can contact me by emailing me at Lukeskiwalker@bellsouth.net , or posting here... Thank you very much, Wesly OK VB6 is not available to download. Its an old product which is probably 8 years old and was rep ...Show All

• SQL Server Non-Default SQL Server Port

  Using Visual Studio .NET 2005 and I cannot make a database connection in sever explorer to a SQL server that listens on a non-default port. I can do this with VS .NET 2003, but not 2005. Please assist. What is the version of the SQL Server   Does the SQL Server and the connection application run on the same machine or on two different machines   What protocols are enabled on the SQL Server   What connection string does the application use   Depending on your connection string you may need to start the SQL Browser service on the machine running SQL Server.    ...Show All

• Visual C# Text Box field value into the "filter" in the Query Builder?

  I'm new, sorry for the simplicity of this question. I'm using VS 2005, C# and connecting to an SQL db. Web form, not windows form. I've got an sql connection to my DB, and can display things just fine when doing a gridview, but I want to limit the gridview's output. I've made a text field on the page for "application_ID". I want the user to be able to enter in an application ID number into the field and have the gridview only display the fields in the "Application" table that match "application_ID". (same concept will be used for outputting applications entered by employee Name...enter employee_Name. ...Show All

• Windows Forms More visual inheritance issues - docking and having to always "BringToFront"

  Is there something I'm missing here   I have a base form that i designed that has atoolbars and some panels.  Some of the panels are private, some are protected, the toolbar is private.  The toolbar is docked top and so are all but one of the panels.  That panel is docked fill.  In the forms designer, when I inherit from this&n ...Show All

• SQL Server Using OLE DB Command w/ Insert and want to return 'Select @@Identity'

  I'd like to be able to insert a row and get the Identity column from it. I would normally tack on the ;Select @@Identity and get the row from that. Is this possible from using any of the Existing components besides the script component and making a connection to the DB myself   Thanks,   Scott<- Scott,    I did this basically the same way you did but used an 'Execute SQL Task' component.  I executed two SQL statements, the second of which was a Select @@Identity.  I configured the result set to be 'Single Row' and mapped the result to a variable.  Note: I ...Show All

• Windows Forms Permissions required for a DataSet inside a Control

  Hi, which Permissions do I need when a Control uses internally a typed DataSet  In general I've no problems with User Controls in IE, but I've one that contains a DataSet object and that doesn't get loaded due to a security exception. Jürgen Well, I'm fully aware how to set the permissions for my control and I have it already working ...Show All

• SQL Server having a constraint on a adding a record

  how can i make a stored procedure for inserting a record in the database where it detect if the title is already present and then disregard insertion and just update the number of copies in that specific record i would be so thankful for any hel out there...tnx! insert into yourtable(pk, col1, col2, col3) select @pk, @col1, @col2, @col3 where not exists (select * from yourtable x where x.pk = @pk) if @@rowcount = 0 -- nothing inserted begin -- so do the update update yourtable set col1 = @col1, col2 = @col2, col3 = @col3 where pk = @pk end ...Show All

• Visual C# custom cursor hotspot/.cur files/.ico file

  I'm using C# from Visual Studio 2005 Express edition, and I can't seem to "Add new item..." of type "Cursor file" to my "Windows Application" project. The "Cursor file" object is just not there. Anyone know how to do that More specifically, anyone know how to create and use single frame, custom cursors created from .ico files, and assign them an arbitrary hot spot So far I've been able to do everything except the hotspot part (the Cursor.Current.Hotspot is read-only!) I've seen snippets here and there that use the "[import blah .dll (or whatever)] ...LoadCursorFromFile()..." but ...Show All

• Visual Basic Waiting between commands

  Hi Is it possible to let vb wait a few seconds before it wil excecute the next command You can tell the application to wait until all pending actions have completed by using Application.DoEvents() . Otherwise, you could force the entire application to pause for a certain amount of time by using Threading.Thread.Sleep(pauseLengthInMilliseconds ) . ...Show All

• Windows Forms DataGridView binding to another control

  I have a problem databinding my child DataGridView to my master DataGridView. When I simply add two DataGridView's then its no problem, I can select a record on the master table and get the child records in the other DataGridView. But now I like to have my child DataGridView in another control, so that I can add buttons etc. and that i can simpy attach the control to my panels. Since I did this I get no records on the child DataGridView. How can I solve this problem Ok i found the problem. The problem was that I received the data from my webservice wrong. I did this: dataset = webser ...Show All

• Visual Studio 2008 (Pre-release) WPF is going be absent in First Vista Release

  Hello all, I am reading on some news groups that WPF is not going to be there in initial release of windows vista. Does anyone knows more about it I cannot imagine vista without WPF. Any thoughts from experts Thanks Basav Jonas Beckeman wrote: This is troublesome news, if it's true. Please, MS, shed some light on this. It would seriously affect my commitment to WPF if it's not pre-installed on Vista. I had hopes that WPF would be a viable platform for some of my products within 2-3 years, but maybe I should think more like 5-10... I really need to know about the plans f ...Show All

• Visual Studio What to use instead of GetDisplayProperties

  In the april version of the SDK I used the override method GetDisplayProperties to filter properties that where not relevant. In the june version this method is no longer available. How can I implement the same behavior with the june sdk John, you can set the IsBrowsable flag on a DomainProperty to false if you don't want it to appear in the properties grid. Does this meet your needs Steve Cook [MSFT] ...Show All

• Visual C# Multiline Search and Replace

  Is there an Add-in available for VS.Net 2005 that will do multiline searching and replacing In other words, what I would like to do is search for: line 1 line 2 line 3 and replace it with: line 1A line 2A line 3A etc. Is there a tool that does that Thanks, Chuck Cobb This reads mroe like a refactoring problem. Regardless, you can still get it done w/ what you already have. Peter Macej - of Helixoft blog - wrote a macro that extends the native regular expression search n' replace to provide multiline search n' replace. I haven't used this code myself, but the approach is promising and the b ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Syntax Error, Missing operand after '=' operator

  hi, i have this code to fill a data adapter in c#.net: this.freedomScooterServiceBindingSource.Filter = "CustomerID = " + comboBoxCustomer.SelectedValue; It worked fine during running of the application, but when i exit the application, it threw error " Syntax Error, Missing operand after '=' operator " on this line of code i checked it against some sample code, ther is no syntax error, but why is this happening plz help Hi, Unfortunatelly I have issues with the above problem. I came upd to a single line of code which might be related to this: dataTable.Select(dataTable.Columns["country_id& ...Show All